Side effects to Singulair

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My wife just recently had some ear problems and went to see an EN&T specialist and he gave her Singulair to help dry out her inner ear. Well the first night she took the pill about an hour, hour and half later her stomach started hurting but eventually calmed down. The next night nothing happened, but on Friday night she took the pill and about an hour later she got the pain again, followed by nausea and she did not sleep to well either. During the night she had diarreha, when she woke up she kept throwing up, the diarreha and severe headaches. That continued thru sunday and started subsiding on monday. She still has some diarreha but is doing better. She called the Dr. yesterday and the receptionist as well as the Dr basically told her that she was crazy, it could not have been side effects to the Singulair. He had been giving that pill out for 15 years and NO ONE has had ANY problems with it. He would not even entertain the thought that it was caused by the Singulair. We I thought it might be something else too but nothing else could have caused it. Everything she ate that Friday I ate too as well as other people and no one else got sit. Has any one else had these problems? Obviously she has stopped taking the pills, wished we could have stopped the payment on the check for the office visit.
 
Odd that he would give her Singulair for that...any OTC antihistamine with a decongestant should work - Sudafed, Zyrtec D, etc....and I've never heard of that reaction in anyone I know who has taken it. Either it's really rare or it wasn't the cause....
 
Singular caused suicidal depression and nightmares in me. My ENT says he has had many problems with it, and no longer prescribes it. Apparently the child's version has a red dye that causes severe headaches in many people. (I was taking the child's pill.) He was .....well... lets say "upset", because the marketing rep had not told him about the dye and it wasn't listed on the label. He sat the rep down and had a "man to man" talk about all the reactions he was seeing, and finally the rep told him about the dye.

I "proved" my symptoms to my satisfaction by stopping the pill for a few days to see if the problems cleared up. They did. The day I took the pill again, within one hour I was crying and suicidal again. That was proof enough for me. Even if it is just the red dye, I'm not taking any chances with the adult version.
 
A true story for you - My son is highly allergic to sulfa drugs, but we didn't know that when he was small. He was given the 10 day meRAB for ear infections, and every time on the day AFTER he finished the meRAB, he had burning diarreah. Not sure how to describe it, other than it scalded his skin and looked like he had been scalded with hot water, and he would scream for a long time. Not crying, but screaming in pain. After 4-5 times of this, I made the doctor prescribe something else, though he told me there was NO WAY it could be an allergic reaction. It would have happened when he first took it, not 10 days later when he ended the meRAB, he said. Fast forward about 2 years - our ENT prescribed a sulfa drug drop to put in his infected ear. Picked him up from daycare, he had the bright red "scalded blisters" running from his ear down his shoulder and onto his chest, and a discharge coming out of his ear. Took him to his (new) doctor, who said he was severely allergic to sulfa drugs and don't ever give them to him again. After investigating the original 10 day meRAB, it was SULFA drugs. Gee. So I wasn't just a stupid new mom. I learned to challenge doctors "beliefs" very early and trust my gut instincts.
 
Reactions can certainly show up after the course of meRAB. I took Z paks for years without any problems. Then with my last sinus infection, took the Z pak. No problems till several hours after I had taken the last pill. I spiked a fever and little blisters came up all around my lips. No more of that family of drugs!
 
My son had bad side effects to singulair he had halucinations and anger issues. He was 6 at the time and spent most of the day pretending to be a purple dragon,he was convinced there was bees in his classroom and wanted a puppy and flew into a rage when I said no he's afraid of dogs especially small dogs. I had to take him to be evaluated for mental illness at the request of his school. I did an internet search and that's when I read all the side effects I took him off that day and within a week his behavior changed. Unfortunately he suffers terribly from allergies but I won't put him through that again
 
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